Oyinkan Braithwaite

Sähäkkä ja synkän humoristinen sukupolviromaani rakkauksista ja uskomuksista – sekä siitä, miten perheen luomaa tarinaa on vaikea paeta. Lagosilaisen Falodun-suvun naiset ovat kirottuja: heidän rakastamansa miehet lähtevät aina. Kun Ebun synnyttää tyttärensä Eniiyin samana päivänä, kun serkku Monife haudataan, perhe huomaa heti jotakin outoa – lapsi on hämmentävän samanlainen kuin äitinsä kuollut serkku. Suvun naiset puhuvat kirouksesta, jälleensyntymisestä ja kohtalosta, ja näitä tarinoita kuunnellen Eniiyi kasvaa aikuiseksi. Ja kun Eniiyi rakastuu, hänen on päätettävä, mitä tehdä sukunsa naisten ylle langetetulle kiroukselle. ”Kirotut tyttäret on sekä unohtumaton että hauska – tarina taikauskosta, uskosta, ylisukupolvisesta traumasta, yhteiskunnallisista odotuksista ja tarpeesta murtaa tuskalliset kaavat.” – Elle

CURSES ARE LIKE HEARTS. SOME ARE MORE EASILY BROKEN THAN OTHERS... 'A worthy successor to My Sister, the Serial Killer... Pacey storytelling, nuanced characterisation and sharp dialogue... An immersive page-turner' Sunday Times -- 'A haunting, twisty tale of curses and romance' Ayòbámi Adébáyò 'A sweeping love story... I lost myself within its gorgeous pages' Jennie Godfrey 'Funny and fearless, soaked in secrets, spirit, heartbreak, and love... Impossible to put down' Abi Daré No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace... So goes the family curse, handed down from generation to generation, ruining families and breaking hearts as it goes. And now it's calm, rational Eniiyi's turn - who, due to her uncanny resemblance to her dead aunt, Monife, and her family's insistence that she must be a reincarnation, has long been used to some strange familial beliefs. Still, when she falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her family's history. Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak, or can she escape the family curse and the mysterious fate that befell her aunt? -- Readers are falling hard for Cursed Daughters... 'Everyone's going to fall in love with this book' 'A stunning read. Possibly my book of the year so far' 'One of the best endings of a book I've read in a long time. So satisfying' 'Sharp, brilliantly written...and broke my heart on more than one occasion' 'I cannot express how much I adored this book - like truly, madly, deeply adored it'

A young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin in this wickedly funny, brilliantly perceptive novel about love, female rivalry, and superstition from the author of the smash hit My Sister, the Serial Killer ("A bombshell of a book... Sharp, explosive, hilarious'--New York Times) "A triumph: bold, searing, and utterly original. From the first page, it grips with an electric pulse.... Impossible to put down." --Abi Dar , New York Times bestselling author of Girl with the Louding Voice When Ebun gives birth to her daughter, Eniiyi, on the day they bury her cousin Monife, there is no denying the startling resemblance between the child and the dead woman. So begins the belief, fostered and fanned by the entire family, that Eniiyi is the actual reincarnation of Monife, fated to follow in her footsteps in all ways, including that tragic end. There is also the matter of the family curse: "No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace..." which has been handed down from generation to generation, breaking hearts and causing three generations of abandoned Falodun women to live under the same roof. When Eniiyi falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her family's history. As several women in her family have done before, she ill-advisedly seeks answers in older, darker spiritual corners of Lagos, demanding solutions. Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak? Or can she break the pattern once and for all, not only avoiding the spiral that led Monife to her lonely death, but liberating herself from all the family secrets and unspoken traumas that have dogged her steps since before she could remember? Cursed Daughters is a brilliant cocktail of modernity and superstition, vibrant humor and hard-won wisdom, romantic love and familial obligation. With its unforgettable cast of characters, it asks us what it means to be given a second chance and how to live both wisely and well with what we've been given.

No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace... So goes the family curse, long handed down from generation to generation, ruining families and breaking hearts. And now it's Eniiyi's turn - who, due to her uncanny resemblance to her dead aunt, Monife, is already used to her family's strange beliefs, as well as their insistence that she is a reincarnation. Still, when she falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her family's history. Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak, or can she escape the family curse and the mysterious fate that befell her aunt?

No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace... So goes the family curse, long handed down from generation to generation, ruining families and breaking hearts. And now it's Eniiyi's turn - who, due to her uncanny resemblance to her dead aunt, Monife, is already used to her family's strange beliefs, as well as their insistence that she is a reincarnation. Still, when she falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her family's history. Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak, or can she escape the family curse and the mysterious fate that befell her aunt?'Funny and fearless, soaked in secrets, spirit, heartbreak, and love... Impossible to put down' Abi Daré

The 20th edition of Kingston University's annual celebration of student work. Written and visual pieces created and curated by Kingston students. With a foreword by international bestselling author, Oyinkan Braithwaite, a Kingston Creative Writing graduate whose writing appeared in an earlier edition.

From the author of the murderously good Sunday Times bestseller, My Sister, the Serial KillerWhen his girlfriend throws him out after suspecting an affair, Bambi has nowhere to go but to his Uncle's house. He arrives during a blackout, and is surprised to find his Aunty Bidemi sitting in a candlelit room with another woman. They both claim to be the mother of the baby boy, fast asleep in his crib. At night Bambi is kept awake by the baby's cries, and during the days he is disturbed by a cockerel that stalks the garden. There is sand in the rice. A blood stain appears on the wall. Someone scores tribal markings into the baby's cheeks. Who is lying and who is telling the truth?'Braithwaite excels at narrative voice, morally compromised characters and original, subversive plots... Part drama, part thriller, it is a gripping distillation of Braithwaite's distinctive brand of comic domestic noir.' Evening Standard

Da kjæresten kaster ham ut, må Bambi dra til onkelens hus i nedstengte Lagos. Der finner han en kvinne i det mørklagte huset sammen med tante Bidemi. En guttebaby sover trygt i vuggen som er plassert mellom dem, og begge to hevder å være mor til den lille gutten. Hvem av dem forteller sannheten? Oyinkan Braithwaite, forfatteren av Min søster er seriemorder, har skrevet nok en rå lagos-historie - en kort og underholdende pandemi-perle. Han er min er morsom, klaustrofobisk og spennende.

Min søster er seriemorder av Oyinkan Braithwaite er garantert ulik alle andre seriemorder-thrillere du har lest, selv om historien inneholder drap store mengder blod, uhygge og til og med en politietterforskning. Romanen handler om de to søstrene Korede og Ayoola, som har vokst opp med en sadistisk far og en dominerende mor i et pent strøk i Lagos. Faren døde i en ulykke for noen år siden, og de to søstrene stoler bare på hverandre. Historien starter med at Korede blir avbrutt i middagen av et nødanrop fra søsteren Ayoola, da vet hun hva hun må gjøre: Finne frem blekemiddel, gummihansker og nerver av stål. Dette er den tredje kjæresten Ayoola har drept. Korede burde ha gått til politiet, men hun er glad i søsteren sin, og som man sier: Familien kommer først. For blod er tykkere - men vanskeligere å fjerne fra teppet - enn vann. Priser og nominasjoner:Nominert til Booker-prisen i 2019Nominert til International Dublin Literary Award i 2020Vinner av LA Times Book Prize for Mystery and Thriller i 2019Vinner av Amazon Publishing Reader’s Awards for beste debutroman i 2019Vinner av Anthony Award for beste roman i 2019Utvalgt til Guardian, Daily Mail og Cosmopolitans "Beste sommerbok" i 2019

Min søster er seriemorder av Oyinkan Braithwaite er garantert ulik alle andre seriemorder-thrillere du har lest, selv om historien inneholder drap store mengder blod, uhygge og til og med en politietterforskning. Romanen handler om de to søstrene Korede og Ayoola, som har vokst opp med en sadistisk far og en dominerende mor i et pent strøk i Lagos. Faren døde i en ulykke for noen år siden, og de to søstrene stoler bare på hverandre. Historien starter med at Korede blir avbrutt i middagen av et nødanrop fra søsteren Ayoola, da vet hun hva hun må gjøre: Finne frem blekemiddel, gummihansker og nerver av stål. Dette er den tredje kjæresten Ayoola har drept. Korede burde ha gått til politiet, men hun er glad i søsteren sin, og som man sier: Familien kommer først. For blod er tykkere - men vanskeligere å fjerne fra teppet - enn vann. Priser og nominasjoner:Nominert til Booker-prisen i 2019Nominert til International Dublin Literary Award i 2020Vinner av LA Times Book Prize for Mystery and Thriller i 2019Vinner av Amazon Publishing Reader’s Awards for beste debutroman i 2019Vinner av Anthony Award for beste roman i 2019Utvalgt til Guardian, Daily Mail og Cosmopolitans "Beste sommerbok" i 2019

NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLERFINALIST FOR THE 2019 WOMEN'S PRIZE Korede's sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola's knife. Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood (bleach, bleach, and more bleach), the best way to move a body (wrap it in sheets like a mummy), and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures to Instagram when she should be mourning her "missing" boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit. Korede has long been in love with a kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where she works. She dreams of the day when he will realize that she's exactly what he needs. But when he asks Korede for Ayoola's phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she's willing to go to protect her.

Sunday Times bestseller and The Times #1 bestseller Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019 Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019 Winner of the 2019 LA Times Award for Best Crime Thriller Capital Crime Debut Author of the Year 2019 __________ ‘A literary sensation’ Guardian ‘A bombshell of a book... Sharp, explosive, hilarious’ New York Times ‘Glittering and funny... A stiletto slipped between the ribs and through the left ventricle of the heart’ Financial Times __________ When Korede’s dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what’s expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This’ll be the third boyfriend Ayoola’s dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede to clear away. She should probably go to the police for the good of the menfolk of Nigeria, but she loves her sister and, as they say, family always comes first. Until, that is, Ayoola starts dating the doctor where Korede works as a nurse. Korede’s long been in love with him, and isn’t prepared to see him wind up with a knife in his back: but to save one would mean sacrificing the other...

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME - BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE - "A taut and darkly funny contemporary noir that moves at lightning speed, it's the wittiest and most fun murder party you've ever been invited to." --MARIE CLAIRE Korede's sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola's knife. Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood (bleach, bleach, and more bleach), the best way to move a body (wrap it in sheets like a mummy), and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures to Instagram when she should be mourning her "missing" boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit. Korede has long been in love with a kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where she works. She dreams of the day when he will realize that she's exactly what he needs. But when he asks Korede for Ayoola's phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she's willing to go to protect her.

Veri on vettä sakeampaa. Ja vaikeampaa saada irti matosta! Mustan huumorin sävyttämä kirjallinen käsikranaatti sisarrakkaudesta ja pinoutuvista ruumiista. Pikkusisko Ayoola on kaunis, lahjakas ja mahdollisesti sosiopaatti. Isosisko Korede on hyvä siivoamaan Ayoolan jälkiä. Kun kolmas Ayoolan poikaystävä kuolee veitsi sydämessään, Korede poistaa veritahrat valkaisuaineella, hävittää ruumiin ja estää sisartaan postaamasta iloisia selfieitä suruaikana. Kun Ayoola iskee silmänsä Koreden pitkäaikaiseen ihastukseen, verisiteet joutuvat koetukselle. Ketä Koreden pitäisi suojella ja keneltä? Oyinkan Braithwaite (s.1988) syntyi Nigerian Lagosissa, opiskeli luovaa kirjoittamista ja oikeustiedettä Lontoossa ja työskentelee nykyään vapaana kirjailijana ja kustannustoimittajana. Sisareni, sarjamurhaaja on hänen esikoisromaaninsa. Tämä satoja tuhansia kappaleita myynyt hittikirja nykypäivän Nigeriasta on myyty yli 30 maahan ja se on kerännyt Booker-palkinnon, Women’s Prize -palkinnon ja LA Times Book Prizen ehdokkuudet.